( NYPost )
Both men behind Wednesday’s dual suspected terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas previously served at the same North Carolina Army base, The Post has learned.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who killed 14 people when he rammed his truck through New Year’s crowds on Bourbon Street, was an Army veteran who lived in Fayetteville in 2012.
He was assigned to the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, which is headquartered Fort Bragg — now Fort Liberty — in 2013, according to a Facebook post by the division’s 1st Brigade Combat team in November 2013.
Cybertruck bombing suspect Matthew Livelsberger was an active-duty Green Beret when his rented Tesla truck exploded at the entrance of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas hours after Jabbar’s attack.
To become a Green Beret — as he did in 2006 — soldiers must attend the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School located at Fort Liberty, meaning he would have been there at least that year.
He also lived in North Carolina at the same time as Jabbar, albeit in Charlotte, about two and a half hours away from Fort Liberty, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The FBI said Thursday there is no known connection between the Cybertruck blast and the New Orleans attack — despite them happening hours apart on New Year’s Day.
Additionally, Fort Liberty is one of the largest military installations in the world, with a population of roughly 52,000 military personnel.
Fort Liberty’s name was changed from Fort Bragg on June 2, 2023, as part of the Biden administration’s effort to rename military installations named after Confederate officers.
The facility had been named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a slave-holding Southern officer and native of North Carolina.
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